Hacker News with Generative AI: Commodore 64

Signal Carnival (quiss.org)
At Revision 2025, we released "Signal Carnival" (csdb, YouTube). This demo asks you to switch the audio and video cable of your C64:

Retro Gaming, Demoscene, Commodore 64

140 points by adunk 5 days ago | 19 comments

C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64 (theoasisbbs.com)
In a story almost too perfect to plan, The 300-Baud Guy shares a rare moment of timing and tech history. After nearly four decades away, a Commodore 64 user known as Vandal logged into the Snobsoft BBS — exactly 39 years after his last visit — right down to the date: March 31, 1986.

Retro Computing, Nostalgia, Commodore 64

12 points by SeenNotHeard 14 days ago | 1 comments

Commodore 64 vertical parallax scrolling with source code (youtube.com)

Commodore 64, Retro Computing, Programming, Video Games, Source Code

3 points by wellytopness 42 days ago | 0 comments

Commodore 64 PETSCII Image (2022) (medium.com)
It is said that life begins at the age of 40 — I hope it is true … After 23 years of working in IT and spending the last 12 years in a company I co-founded, my contract was terminated, I lost my job and I suddenly found myself almost overnight in a situation where I have all day ahead with no schedule, no deadlines, no important phone calls, no one is waiting for my analysis, consultation or technical specification.

Commodore 64, Retro Computing, Pixel Art, Image Processing, Personal Reflections

57 points by erickhill 51 days ago | 12 comments

The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem (blogspot.com)
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ...

Commodore 64, Retro Computing, Hardware, DIY Projects, Modems

125 points by todsacerdoti 97 days ago | 18 comments

Full-HD HDMI for the Commodore 64 [video] (youtube.com)

Retro Computing, Hardware, Video, Commodore 64

3 points by sandebert 109 days ago | 0 comments

Documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64 (github.com/markmoxon)
This repository contains the original source code for Elite on the Commodore 64, with every single line documented and (for the most part) explained.

Commodore 64, Retro Gaming, Source Code, Documentation

193 points by thunderbong 130 days ago | 54 comments

Tricking c64 basic into clearing a hi-res screen quickly (altervista.org)
Bitmap graphics with Commodore 64 BASIC 2.0 is not easy, but it is possible. The problem is the lack of commands specifically designed to handle the bitmapped screen.

Retro Computing, Commodore 64, Programming, BASIC, Graphics

61 points by amichail 140 days ago | 16 comments

Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code (retrogamecoders.com)
Program the Commodore 64 in BASIC, Assembly or C using Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac, Windows and Linux!

Programming, Retrocomputing, Commodore 64

188 points by rbanffy 145 days ago | 37 comments

ChipWits Macintosh/Commodore 64 Forth source code released (chipwits.com)
This month marks the 🎈🎈🎈 40th anniversary of ChipWits! 🎈🎈🎈 To celebrate, we’re releasing all of the original Mac and Commodore 64 FORTH source code (or as much as we could recover) as open source!

Programming, Retro Computing, Open Source, History, Commodore 64

12 points by classichasclass 157 days ago | 0 comments

Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt [video] (youtube.com)

Music, Programming, Retro Computing, Commodore 64, Video

8 points by ruik 157 days ago | 1 comments

One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit (blogspot.com)
I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games I've had kicking around on the backburner.

Retrocomputing, Commodore 64, Games

43 points by todsacerdoti 160 days ago | 9 comments

Disassembling Crossroads, Part 1 (m65digest.substack.com)
One of my all-time favorite games for the Commodore 64—and I know I’m not alone in this—is Crossroads, the single-screen maze shoot’em’up by Steve Harter, published in Compute!’s Gazette magazine as a type-in program in December 1987.

Retro Gaming, Commodore 64, Games, Programming

14 points by ibobev 162 days ago | 0 comments

C64 Game Uses a Datassette as a Controller [video] (youtube.com)

Retro Gaming, Hardware, Video Games, Commodore 64

6 points by amichail 179 days ago | 1 comments

C64 OS Programmer's Guide (c64os.com)
C64 OS is an operating system add-on to the Commodore 64's built-in features and software.

Commodore 64, Operating Systems, Retro Computing, Programming

63 points by ibobev 204 days ago | 7 comments

Making 8-bit music from scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC prompt (youtube.com)

Music, Retro Computing, Programming, Commodore 64

11 points by G3rn0ti 210 days ago | 2 comments

Machine Yearning: A 4 KB musicdisk for a modified C64 with two SID chips (linusakesson.net)